Cook County, or Chicagoland, has a higher illiteracy rate than Illinois, as well as the rest of the nation, which is either proof that the Democrats suck at successful policy-making, or dumbing down the people is the agenda.
Here’s this, from a new education report by Hannah Schmid at the Illinois Policy Institute: One-fifth of Illinois adults are functionally illiterate, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. … In Cook County, 25% of adults are functionally illiterate. So what does it mean to be a “functionally illiterate” adult? Well according to Schmid, the functionally illiterate person “cannot understand the meaning of sentences, locate information on pages or complete simple forms.”
While Schmid notes that although “education is no guarantee of escaping or preventing poverty,” what we do know is that illiteracy almost guarantees it. If a person lacks the most basic skills to give or exchange information via the written […]
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